Award for best Economics Master's Thesis

An annual award is made for the best Master Thesis by a MEcon or MiQE/F graduate.

Each year the Department of Economics selects the best Master's Thesis submitted as part of the MiQE/F and MEcon programmes. The prize is awarded at the Graduation Day in the Autumn Semester, by the President of the University of St.Gallen.

The prize of 1000 CHF is sponsored by the three HSG Economics Institutes:
• SEW-HSG - Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research
• FGN-HSG - Institute of Economics
• SIAW-HSG - Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research

Marko Mlikota (MiQE/F) was awarded for the best Master's Thesis in Economics from the president of the University of St.Gallen, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bieger, at the Master's Graduation Day on 5 October 2019 for his thesis: "The Business-Cycle Implications of Monetary Union".

Sophie Brown (MEcon) and Fabian Mauchle (MEcon) were awarded for the best Master's Thesis in Economics from the president of the University of St.Gallen, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bieger, at the Master's Graduation Day on 6 October 2018. Sophie Brown wrote her thesis about the "Impact of Business Association Services and Training Programs on Export Performance: Evidence from Bangladesh’s IT and ITES Sector" and Fabian Mauchle about "Der Finanzausgleich des Kantons Zürich im Lichte von Effizienzüberlegungen".

Andrina Niederberger (MiQE/F) was awarded for the best Master's Thesis in Economics from the president of the University of St.Gallen, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bieger, at the Master's Graduation Day on 7 October 2017 for her thesis: "A Machine Learning Approach to Reveal Heterogeneity on the Labor Market".

Carlo Zanella (MiQE/F) was awarded for the best Master's Thesis in Economics from the president of the University of St.Gallen, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bieger, at the Master's Graduation Day on 8 October 2016. Topic of this Thesis is "Time-Varying Uncertainty and Durable Adjustment".

Asbjørn Klein (MEcon) was awarded for the best Master's Thesis in Economics from the president of the University of St.Gallen, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bieger, at the Master's Graduation Day on 3 October 2015. Topic of this Thesis is "Unemployment benefits for heterogeneous workers".

Aline Blankertz (MEcon) and Philemon Krähenmann (MEcon) were awarded for the best Master's Thesis in Economics from the president of the University of St.Gallen, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bieger, at the Master's Graduation Day on 4 October 2014. Aline Blankertz thesis is about "Reciprocity in Joint Asset Ownership". The topic of Philemon Krähenmann's thesis is "Worker Competition in a Search and Matching Model".

Oliver Buser (MiQE/F) and Sascha Kälin (MiQE/F) were awarded for the best Master's Thesis in Economics from the president of the University of St.Gallen, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bieger, at the Master's Graduation Day on 5 October 2013. This is the first year that two graduates were awarded. Oliver Buser wrote his thesis about "Extracting the Risk-neutral Probability Distribution from Fx Options applied to the Currency Pair EURCHF". The topic of Sascha Kälin's thesis is "Voluntary versus compulsory contribution with parochial altruism".

Manuel Roller (MiQE/F) was awarded for the best Master's Thesis in Economics from the president of the University of St.Gallen, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bieger, at the Master's Graduation Day on 6 October 2012 for his thesis: "Culture, Political Attitudes and Preferences for Redistribution".

Maria Schwarz (MiQE/F) was awarded for the best Master's Thesis in Economics from the president of the University of St.Gallen, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bieger., at the Master's Graduation Day on 8 October 2011 for her thesis: "Exchange rate dynamics and the spillovers from the U.S. stock market - a tree-structured approach".

Jürg Sandmeier (MEcon) was awarded for the best Master's Thesis in Economics from the president of the University of St.Gallen, Prof. Ernst Mohr Ph.D., at the Master's Graduation Day on 4 October 2010 for his thesis: "International Index Returns and Trading Volume: An Investigation of the Causal Return-Volume Relationship and Volume-based Momentum Strategies".

Patrick Gander (MiQE/F) was awarded for the best Master's Thesis in Economics from the president of the University of St.Gallen, Prof. Ernst Mohr Ph.D., at the Master's Graduation Day on 3 October 2009 for his thesis: "Bank and Venture Capital Finance".

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